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We are a boutique retainer-based executive search firm. As such, we assist a select number of corporations with recruiting executives who meet very specific requirements in terms of experience and personal attributes. With this in mind, if you would like to e-mail your resume to us, and allow us to compare your background to the specific needs of our clients, please do so. Please e-mail to resumes@hayesreilly.com. If there is a match, we will contact you to discuss the specific position we are working on.
Some advice . . . If you are in transition right now, and are looking for a new position, what follows may be helpful to you.
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Hayes Reilly Associates, LLC is seeking a senior-level executive with corporate experience in the Consumer Goods/Consumer Healthcare industries to join our team. If you enjoy networking and helping people advance in their careers and have a strong network of senior executive relationships -- this opportunity may be for you. For an in-depth discussion about this position, please contact Hayes Reilly at hreilly@hayesreilly.com. |
Who are YOU?
- What is YOUR personality?
- How are YOU "hard wired?"
- What is YOUR DNA like?
- What can YOU do better than 10,000 people?
- What have people said you are good at since you were a kid? Did you listen? Are you listening now?
What tools and resources are out there to help you assess your personality? The right career path?
- The book Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham of Gallup Consulting includes an online Strength Finder assessment Test
Go get the job by networking
- Research has proven that 85% of the time executives in transition find the right job through someone they know.
- The average person has 200 people in his/her personal and business network. Do you have all of them on your contact list? In a database? Have you called all of them? Have you asked for advice, asked for a reference?
- Suggested books: Rites of Passage by John Lucht. How to Win Friends and Influence People, How To Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie.
- Suggested websites: www.ritesite.com, www.execunet.com, www.headhunter.net, www.6figurejobs.com
Go get the job by having the right resume
- 3 key elements to include:
- Description of companies you've worked for
- Description of job responsibilities
- Bullet points of accomplishments
- Have one page for every 5 years in the workforce, stopping at 4 pages. Don't try to squeeze to one or two pages.
- Label your resume files -- SMITHjohnHRexec, for example -- when e-mailing to prospective employers. Or, SMITHjohnMANUFexec -- depending on your functional background.
- Call to get a meeting rather than just send a resume.
- Tailor your resume to specific positions you are applying for.
- Be able to give a 15-minute overview of your career starting with your first position. Be ready for "Take me through your background?"
- KNOW who you are and what you've done and how you have "added value."
Go get the job by preparing for the interview
- Dark suit and white blouse/shirt even to places that are business casual.
- Rehearse for the interview. Be comfortable with your answers.
- KNOW the company and the position -- understand what job responsibilities are most important.
- Articulate (weave into the flow of the interview) how you've done very similar things that are expected in the new company.
- Give specific information about situations where you added value.
- DON'T RAMBLE -- just answer the question given.
- Have some ideas to "take the pain away" from the hiring manager.
Interview questions to prepare for
- Take me through your background, beginning with your first job out of college. What was your thought process as you proceeded through various positions and roles?
- Why are you interested in leaving your current employer? Why have you made a change in the past?
- Why our company? Why do you think you would fit in well here from a skills perspective as well as a personality perspective?
- What is your management style? Give me a recent, specific situation which would help me understand your management style.
- Tell me about the worst person you've ever managed. What specifically did you do to get the most out of that person? Tell me similarly about the best person.
- How have you personally, most recently, "added value" to your company? Be specific.
- Tell me about your company's hierarchical structure. Whom do you report to by title? How many direct reports do you have? How much P&L responsibility do you have?
- What are the revenues in your division? Who is your biggest customer?
- How and how often do you communicate your company's mission and vision to your direct reports? What are you doing for their specific professional development?
- What is your current compensation package? How is it structured? If you joined us, how much stock would you leave on the table?
- Any issues with relocation? Travel?
- Tell me about your favorite boss. What did you like most? Least?
- Favorite and worst times in your career? Why?
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